Jane Christmas

Jane Christmas (born 1954) is a Canadian travel writer,^[1][2] who was a shortlisted nominee for the Stephen Leacock Award and the Word Awards in 2014 for her memoir And Then There Were Nuns.^[3] The book chronicles a year she spent in various convents while discerning whether to marry for a third time or to take up a vocation as an Anglican nun.^[1] In 2011, she was accepted as an associate with the Canadian Anglican religious community, the Sisterhood of St. John the Divine.

Born and raised in Toronto, Ontario to an Anglican father and a Roman Catholic mother. Her father John Grimshaw was a reporter and editor.^[2] Her mother Valeria was also a reporter and editor.^[2] She was educated at St. Clement's School and Loretto Abbey, and graduated from Carleton University with a Bachelor of Arts (English and History).^[2] She had a long career as a newspaper editor and journalist,^[4] including for Canadian Press, The Globe and Mail, the Hamilton Spectator and the National Post, and later as a communications manager in the public sector, before devoting her time exclusively to writing. In 2012, she moved to England.

She has also published three books of travel writing,^[4] and co-wrote A Journey Just Begun (2015) for the Sisterhood of St. John the Divine in Toronto.

Works

• The Pelee Project: One Woman's Escape from Urban Madness (2002)
• What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim: A Midlife Misadventure on Spain's Camino de Santiago de Compostela (2007)
• Incontinent on the Continent: My Mother, Her Walker, and Our Grand Tour of Italy (2009)
• And Then There Were Nuns: Adventures in a Cloistered Life (2013)

References

External links

• Jane Christmas